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Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Funeral of 9-Year-Old Tucson Shooting Victim
Hot Air ^ | January 10. 2011 | Howard Portnoy

Posted on 01/10/2011 5:44:35 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Speaking of hatred that knows no bounds or party affiliation, the Westboro Baptist Church, famous for picketing the funerals of slain members of the American military, has announced plans to disrupt the funeral of the youngest of yesterday’s shooting victims, 9-year-old Christina Greene.

The child was among the six fatalities that resulted from a shooting spree in Tucson by Jared Lee Loughner that left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords hospitalized with a brain injury. Christina, who was the granddaughter of former Philadelphia Phillies manager Dallas Green, had just been elected to the student council at school. She wanted to attend the event to see real government in action.

Westboro’s founder, Fred Phelps has run in several Kansas Democratic Party primaries, but has never won. In his most successful bid, as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1992, he received 31 percent of the vote.

Phelps was an enormous supporter of Al Gore 1988 Democratic Party primary election and in 2003 wrote a letter to Saddam Hussein, praising his regime for being


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fanatics; giffords; westboro
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1 posted on 01/10/2011 5:44:42 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Sick bass turds. I wish that I lived in Tucson. I’d get with some other vets and maybe have a reception committee for these lowlifes.


2 posted on 01/10/2011 5:47:11 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (DNC memo - "Don't let this thing go to waste! Exploit! Exploit! Exploit!")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I would be all for allowing Jared Loughner to be released, armed with a Glock, and sent to Westboro during it’s services.


3 posted on 01/10/2011 5:47:11 AM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, than Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I think someone should invite the Patriot Guard Riders to show up.


4 posted on 01/10/2011 5:47:57 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Like all bullies, picking on the smallest. Why the little girl rather than the older shooting victims?


5 posted on 01/10/2011 5:50:53 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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It’s not surprising that this vile, anti-American is working overtime to make people want to limit free speech.


6 posted on 01/10/2011 5:51:19 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The vid of this Phelps guy is very disturbing.
He is unbalanced at best and insane at worst.


7 posted on 01/10/2011 5:51:36 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
They are simply beneath contempt!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
8 posted on 01/10/2011 5:51:43 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This is getting ridiculous.


9 posted on 01/10/2011 5:51:54 AM PST by workerbee (We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
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To: Lazamataz
I would be all for allowing Jared Loughner to be released, armed with a Glock, and sent to Westboro during it’s services.

Only if he promises to save the last round for himself.
10 posted on 01/10/2011 5:52:25 AM PST by TSgt (Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. These people need to be taken to the wood shed for a good old-fashioned @ss whoopin’. If they had the crap kicked out of them every time they showed up at a funeral, they’d stop showin’ up.


11 posted on 01/10/2011 5:53:15 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Our heavenly father is using Phelps to make the point that the devil is real and among us.


12 posted on 01/10/2011 5:53:25 AM PST by ryderann
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To: HiTech RedNeck

More publicity, of course.


13 posted on 01/10/2011 5:54:12 AM PST by workerbee (We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

they choose to dishonor a child’s funeral, but not that of the murdered judge

shows a lot about even their sick twisted minds

as a parent who has buried a chidl I cannot even CONTEMPLATE how this circus adds to the grief and pain

there is a special section in hell for Phred Phelps and his legion


14 posted on 01/10/2011 5:54:32 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: myboyz

This is disgusting beyond words!


15 posted on 01/10/2011 5:54:32 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You got that right!


16 posted on 01/10/2011 5:56:19 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I just read on a NY Yankees blog that she was the granddaughter of Dallas Green, a former Yankee manager.

I'm not sure if others have that mentioned it on other threads. Just a FYI

I sure hope the Patriot Riders or other civic groups shield the parents from the WBC crew. The poor parents certainly don't need the WBC BS at this point. What did they ever do to deserve that?

17 posted on 01/10/2011 5:57:42 AM PST by longjack
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

These lowlifes are sick, sick, sick.

Leave the grieving family alone!


18 posted on 01/10/2011 5:59:54 AM PST by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Wow


19 posted on 01/10/2011 6:00:44 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

No they aren’t!


20 posted on 01/10/2011 6:01:13 AM PST by G Larry (When you're right, avoid compromise!)
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